Consultations resume this week in Papua New Guinea on the referendum consultations, with the Bougainville team being called on to provide a more assertive voice.
The Ishmael Toroama led Autonomous Bougainville Government said it had achieved several political milestones in consultations over the past year with the National Government, but it wants to see more progress.
Photo: Supplied/ Autonomous Bougainville Government
These achievements have provided a timeline for Bougainville's political settlement but the ABG says both governments need to implement these agreements and it says it wants to see progress without any more delays.
President Toroama said Bougainville has done enough talking, and that now it's time to 'go the distance and materialize what the people had fought for'.
He said Bougainville developed a blue print which will be used to achieve administrative and political control.
The President said his government is also setting up a Bougainville Constitutional Planning Committee, which will craft an constitution for the independent nation of Bougainville.
Two years ago, a 97.7 percent majority voted for independence in a referendum promised as part of the 2001 Bougainville Peace Agreement, which ended the war.
